Fannin's Flashbacks

Episode 50 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by Connor Hopkins and Trik Davis! Listen to The Fannin Family chat about their run in WrestleArts (this was recorded BEFORE WrestleArts announced they were closing down after the 11/28 show they have) and what is in store for Last Resort: A Tribute […]

Episode 49 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! This episode is part three with Corporal Robinson. Listen as Corporal Robinson discusses his thoughts about winning the KOTDM TWO TIMES. 2004 and 2007. At the time, he was the only person other than Ian to win KOTDM a second time. What were those tournaments like? What did he […]

Episode 48 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! This episode is part two with Corporal Robinson. Listen as Corporal Robinson & I discuss the short lived IWAMS softball team, listen to Corp’s thoughts about the feud with Mean Mitch Page and how he looks back on their matches compared to how Mitch talked about them on the […]

Episode 47 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former 2x IWA Mid South World Heavyweight Champion and 2x IWA King of the Death Matches winner (2004 & 2007) and the answer to the trivia question of “Who did Jim work on the most amount of shows with but never […]

Episode 46 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former member of #TheFanninFamily from War Games and technically a former IWA Mid South tag team champion, Steve Stone. Disclaimer: This episode has a trigger warning as hazing, mental health and suicide are talked about towards the end of the episode. […]

Episode 45 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former IWA Mid South referee, member of the infamous backyard Lock Family, Bret Hart fan, Maryland man Chris Class! Listen to Chris talk about backyard wrestling in the Kmart building, cheering wildly for Bret Hart at In Your House […]

Episode 44 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! (Or will be in the morning anyway) On this episode, Jim is joined by one half of one of the most decorated tag teams in IWA Mid South history and former 3x IWA Mid South tag team champion: Vito Thomaselli! Find out how a baby Vito ended up […]

Episode 43 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by “That Mouthy C*NT” Mae Browner! Listen as Mae tells her story of falling in love with John Wayne Murdoch, John joining IWA Mid South while she was pregnant and the fallout between them when she couldn’t cope with him doing death […]

Episode 42 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the best referee in IWA Mid South history Brent Blades and IWA historian and President of The Reckless Youth Fan Club: “The Mayor” Rich Wayne! Like last week, these are return guests to the podcast as Brent was on Episode 2 […]

Episode 41 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by his college buddies that were money backers into bringing IWA Mid South to Lexington, Kentucky: “The Consigliere of #TheFanninFamily” Ben Rich and Les Johns. This was supposed to be the first episode of the podcast but Les no showed leaving […]

Episode 40 of #FanninsFlashbacks drops Friday (tomorrow) morning. On this episode, Jim is joined by streaming superstar Thomas Green aka Not That Tom Green! Listen to Tom talk about how the death of WCW and finding AJ Styles led him to seeing the 2002 TPI and falling in love with IWA Mid South. Hear how […]

Episode 38 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by 2 of his long time friends that go back to the beginning of the Highland days of IWA Mid South in 2003: Sox and Ray. Sox had been begging for this episode since Jim started the podcast and then just completely […]

Episode 37 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined once again by Tripping Balls as it is AMA Part Deux, Electric Boogaloo! Have you ever wondered about Ian Rotten getting bitten by TWO brown recluse spiders and somehow not becoming Spiderman? What is Jim’s dream TPI? Who did Jim want to […]

Episode 36 of #FanninsFlashbacks drops in the morning with Suicide Kid as my guest. It will be available on IWTV, my YT channel, and on all your fave podcatcher apps by searching BNMVS Podcast Network. The IWTV version will be enhanced with b roll from Smart Mark Video / IWTV footage of the matches and […]

Episode 35 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the man behind the series of charity shows known as PAWCADE, Chad French! Listen as Chad talks about going to a couple of IWA shows at the KMart building and then becoming a regular at the warehouse in Clarksville. Chad worked […]

Episode 34 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the last IWA Mid South Heavyweight champion in Fannin Family history and the longest reigning IWA Mid South champion in history: Dingo. Hear Dingo talk about how he fell in love with wrestling at a young age and then a chance encounter […]

Episode 33 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! This week the show is a little different after the scheduled guest canceled and a replacement couldn’t be found in time. So on this episode, Jim and Nick Maniwa watched Something to Prove on their own and took notes and then hopped on zoom and talked about it. Next […]

Episode 32 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by one of his commentary partners, a jack of all trades in the wrestling industry, Michael Zee. Listen as Michael Z discusses his start in the wrestling business stemming from the lack of seriousness on the commentary for shows upsetting some of […]

Episode 31 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by one of the craziest, toughest, most talked about deathmatch wrestlers from the early 2000s: Brandon Prophet. Jim and Brandon talk about the upcoming WrestleArts show this weekend in Indianapolis on Saturday May 23rd. Brandon wrestles “Mr. Insanity” Toby Klein one last […]

Episode 30 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the newest announced members of #TheFanninFamily: Tryout Show Rejects John Wayne Murdoch & Reed Bentley along with Nick Maniwa. The discussion begins with talking about the upcoming shows at Bloodstone Wrestling on 6/12 in Chicago and PAWCADE in Jeffersonville, IN on […]

Episode 29 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former 2X IWA Mid South Light Heavyweight Champion, a multiple time finalist in the KOTDMs, and a soon to be GCW Deathmatch HOFer, Dysfunction! Listen to them discuss Dysfunction breaking into the business for MAW and feuding with Ian pretty early […]